When I was little, I read a book that said all mirrors are magic mirrors, and that if you place two mirrors facing each other you can create a portal. And being a curious and stupid child who was always looking for fairy rings to fall into or hag stones to look through I promptly created a lean-to out of my grandmother’s full-length mirrors and crawled inside to await whatever magic was coming.
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It’s a tiny diner with an oversized personality and palate. Sassy waitresses tease customers and pass out complimentary shots of liquor. An employee emerges from the kitchen to act as a ringmaster, letting everyone in the restaurant know his opinions. It’s as if you’ve stepped into the role of an extra on the set of a sitcom during filming. And the food? Absolutely magnificent. To me, this is the Best Breakfast in America.
WHILE IT WAS THE RUSSIANS, wreaking havoc on the election, who won the White House for Donald John Trump, the man who made Trump palatable to voters—who burnished the popular image of the longtime mob money launderer, serial rapist, and piece of shit human—was the TV producer Mark Burnett. On his “reality” show The Apprentice, Burnett sold America a successful, hard-working, comfortably wealthy version of Trump that was completely divorced from reality.
One of the more interesting stories over the last ten years has been the growth of Arm in the server and enterprise markets. Almost a decade ago, Arm was predicting 25%+ of these markets would be enabled through different merchant silicon providers, effectively elbowing out all the x86 install base (which was mostly Intel at the time). Around a dozen start-ups came to the fore, developing silicon for those markets using off-the-shelf Arm mobile cores, with limited success.